Press Releases - October 2024

This year’s Christmas card collection designed exclusively for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust features black grouse in a snowy winter landscape painted by guest artist Martin Ridley.

The annual counting and tagging of juvenile wild Atlantic salmon on the River Frome in Dorset have yielded the lowest number of fish in more than 20 years of monitoring, which is hugely concerning for the scientists running the project.

A new project by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is underway to translocate black grouse from their stronghold in the North Pennines to the North York Moors to expand their range and help them to recolonise areas where they have not bred for nearly 200 years.